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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 89, 99, 113, 121-122. View 1 (2010-0279). Placing rock in derrick laid section. Excavation of old material for foundation going on in background. Strawberry Dam - Sept. 5, 1914 -- view 2 (2010-0289). Derrick laid section. Strawberry dam - Nov. 2, 1914 -- view 3 (2010-0290). Derrick laid section Strawberry dam - Nov. 2, 1914 -- -- view 4 (2010-0303). Right hand end of derrick laid section completed 10 feet above toe-wall, Strawberry Dam. Dec, 2, 1914 -- view 5 (2010-0311). Right end of derrick laid section. Strawberry Dam. April 27, 1915 -- view 6 (2010-0312). Left end of derrick laid section. Strawberry Dam. April 27, 1915. Album documents the building of Strawberry Dam between 1912 and 1916; dam was built at the site of an older Strawberry Dam on lower Strawberry Creek for Sierra and San Francisco Power Company by Willetts & Burr; also shows work on Philadelphia Ditch, a ditch and flume running from a point on South Fork of Stanislaus River 1 1/2 miles sw of town of Strawberry to Philadelphia Diggins (ditch bought by Power Company from Stockton Gravel Mining Co. in 1912); dam and ditch intended to supply water locally and electricity and power to markets as far as San Francisco.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
6 photographic prints ; 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001433538CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Construction workers--California--Tuolumne County Hoisting machinery Waterworks--California--San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.)--Photographs Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
California Tuolumne County San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.) Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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